||Cam*pa"ni*a (?), n. [See Campaig.] Open country. Sir W. Temple.
Cam*pan"i*form (?), a. [LL. campana bell + -form: cf. F. companiforme.] Bell-shaped.
||Cam`pa*ni"le (?), n. [It. campanile bell tower, steeple, fr. It. & LL. campana bell.] (Arch.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.
Many of the campaniles of Italy are lofty and magnificent structures.
Swift.
Cam`pa*nil"i*form (?), a. [See Campaniform.] Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.
Cam`pa*nol"o*gist (?), n. One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.
Cam`pa*nol"o*gy (?), n. [LL. campana bell + -logy.] The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.
||Cam*pan"u*la (kăm*păn"&usl;*l&adot;), n. [LL. campanula a little bell; dim. of campana bell.] (Bot.) A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower.
Cam*pan`u*la"ceous (kăm*păn`&usl;*lā"shŭs), a. (Bot.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (CampanulaceŠ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.
Cam*pan`u*la"ri*an (?), n. [L. campanula a bell.] (Zo÷l.) A hydroid of the family CampanularidŠ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecŠ.
Cam*pan"u*late (?), a. (Bot.) Bell-shaped.
Camp"bell*ite (?), n. [From Alexander Campbell, of Virginia.] (Eccl.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.
Cam*peach"y Wood` (?). [From the bay of Campeachy, in Mexico.] Logwood.
Camp"er (?), n. One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.
{ Cam*pes"tral (?), Cam*pes"tri*an (?), } a. [L. campester, fr. campus field.] Relating to an open field; growing in a field, or open ground.
Camp"fight` (?), n. [Cf. Camp, n., 6.] (O. Eng. Law.) A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
Cam"phene (kăm"fēn or kăm*fēn"), n. (Chem.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.
Cam*phine" (kăm*fēn" or kăm"f&ibreve;n), n. [From Camphor.] Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.
&fist; The name is also applied to a mixture of this substance with three times its volume of alcohol and sometimes a little ether, used as an illuminant.
Cam"phire (kăm"fīr), n. An old spelling of Camphor.
Cam"pho*gen (?), n. [Camphor + -gen: -- formerly so called as derived from camphor: cf. F. camphogŔne.] (Chem.) See Cymene.
Cam"phol (?), n. [Camphor + -ol.] (Chem.) See Borneol.
Cam"phor (kăm"f&etilde;r), n. [OE. camfere, F. camphre (cf. It. canfora, Sp. camfora, alcanfor, LL. canfora, camphora, NGr. kafoyra`), fr. Ar. kāfūr, prob. fr. Skr. karpūra.] 1. A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphora (the Laurus camphora of LinnŠus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative.
2. A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.
&fist; The name camphor is also applied to a number of bodies of similar appearance and properties, as cedar camphor, obtained from the red or pencil cedar (Juniperus Virginiana), and peppermint camphor, or menthol, obtained from the oil of peppermint.
Camphor oil (Chem.), name variously given to certain oil-like products, obtained especially from the camphor tree. -- Camphor tree, a large evergreen tree (Cinnamomum Camphora) with lax, smooth branches and shining triple-nerved lanceolate leaves, probably native in China, but now cultivated in most warm countries. Camphor is collected by a process of steaming the chips of the wood and subliming the product.
Cam"phor (?), v. t. To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate. [R.] Tatler.
Cam`pho*ra"ceous (?), a. Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor. Dunglison.
Cam"phor*ate (?), v. t. To impregnate or treat with camphor.
Cam"phor*ate (?), n. [Cf. F. camphorate.] (Chem.) A salt of camphoric acid.
{ Cam"phor*ate (?), Cam"por*a`ted (?), }Combined or impregnated with camphor.
Camphorated oil, an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.
Cam*phor"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. camphorique.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor.
Camphoric acid, a white crystallizable substance, C10H16O4, obtained from the oxidation of camphor.
&fist; Other acids of camphor are campholic acid, C10H18O2, and camphoronic acid, C9H12O5, white crystallizable substances.